The people who dreamed up "Dead Man on Campus" have a wildly provocative premise, but their execution is hypocritically anti-climactic. Moreover, inducing your roommate to die for you, so you can attain a 4.0 GPA is immoral, unethical, and downright selfish. Anybody who would drive a person to commit suicide simply to boost their grades is beneath contempt. The sick premise of "Dead Man on Campus" is an example of an urban legend. At this point, Josh and Coop discover an obscure loophole in the college by-laws called the 'dead man's clause.' If your roommate takes his own life, the college will compensate the surviving roommates with straight A grades. Unless scrubbing toilets for an eternity interests him, Coop had better wise up. Daddy hoists him up by his lapels and reads him the riot act. Cooper has a long history of flunking out of one college after another. Meanwhile, Scott's tough-minded father, who owns a janitorial business, warns his frivolous son that he won't tolerate his persistent bad behavior. He has an F in each course, and Josh can feel his scholarship slipping away. Indeed, the guys burn hemp and guzzle beer, but their debauchery lacks the apocalyptic excesses of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Eventually, when he picks up his Mid-Term grades, Josh freaks out. Josh's descent into an orgy of drug and alcohol abuse seems comparatively tame by today's cinematic standards. Coop enters moments later, and Josh's best academic intentions do a header. When they initially meet, Josh awakens to find two college janitors in their room smoking Scott's bassoon-length bong. Scott Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar of "Twisted Love") is a bong-toking, pot-puffing, blue-blooded reveler who cuts classes and never hits his textbooks. Any chance of getting those grades vanishes when he meets his party-hardy roommate. Attending school on an academic scholarship, Josh must maintain a B+ average. Josh Miller (Tom Everett Scott of "Boiler Room") is a shy, virginal Midwestern honors student, who has enrolled in a six-year medical program at Daleman College, an illustrious Ivy League institution. Rated R for profanity, crude humor, and illicit drug usage, "Dead Man on Campus" is more antiseptic than anarchic. This sophomoric Kevorkian comedy of errors about higher education and teen suicide aspires to be another "Animal House," but the efforts of freshman director Alan Cohn and his quartet of scenarists provide academic. ****** Dead Man on Campus (8/1/98) Alan Cohn ~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn MunroĪs MTV Films' first live-action movie, "Dead Man on Campus" fails to make the grade. Suicidal tendencies and the characters' actions are resolved in a positive manner, but without much depth. There is much drug use and dirty words, but little skin. In this respect, pretty blonde Poppy Montgomery (as Rachel Gilmore) goes to the head of the class. Girls have little to do except remind us that Scott and Gosselaar are probably not having sex (with each other). Alan Cohn orchestrates everyone well, and there are a couple of memorable segue moments the transition from bed sheets to classroom is a highlight. Trading in his "Saved by the Bell" blond hair-dye for dark, he is obviously schooled in comic acting. The biggest "A" goes to Gosselaar, who is the guiding force. The atmosphere and characters border authentic, for the times. "Dead Man on Campus" turns a silly situation into fun college hijinks.
Prospects include daredevil party animal Lochlyn Munro (as Cliff O'Malley), psycho computer geek Randy Pearlstein (as Buckley Schrank) and presumably depressed rocker Corey Page (as Matt Noonan).
Now, the duo must find a suicidal candidate and help him over the edge. Gosselaar in a fool-proof plan to avoid flunking out of "Daleman College." The school automatically awards straight "A" grades to anyone residing in the same housing unit as a student who commits suicide. Under the influence of perpetually partying roommate Mark-Paul Gosselaar (as Cooper Frederickson), medical student Tom Everett Scott (as Josh Miller) trades in his books for beer and bong hits.
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